Welcome to Davniy Halych!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

You granted on the site of the National preserve “ Ancient Halych”. Revising it attentively you’ll get to know much interesting knowledge about the ancientest city over the Dnister. It is 1110 years old. Besides of it you’ll make the acquaintance with our research establishment which is 20 years old now.There are many cities in Ukraine which have got an ordinary fate, but there are such once, glory of which outlived the centuries and presented them the universal acclaim. Surely Halych belongs to them indisputably. It was Halych which together with Kyiv, Chernihiv, Novgorod and other capital cities of Kievan Rus along the several centuries got the highest achievements in social activities of the old Rus-Ukrainians. Especially the most prominent event in Danylo Halytsky’s life was the epoch of Mongol -Tatar enslavement, when he himself, in essence, took up the banner from the hands of the authoroties of the destroyed gold headed capital of Kyiv and the Old Rus state system and held it up to the middle of the XVth century.

Halych appeared on the picturesque hills of the river Dnister between it’s right influxes of the rivers of Limnytsya and Lukwa, in place of the first primitive slavonic tribes. Numerous archaeological sights are the mute witnesses which testify about staying here annalistic ulychs, tiverts, white Croats.